Advice and tips please!

Triggles

A good way to try and change what you're eating is to make a goal of trying one or two new recipes per week. And don't be afraid to just throw things together and see how it comes out, or toy around with recipes as well. Sometimes you can come out with something really tasty!!

Takeaway food can be very tempting, but if you have a few favourites you like, try making them at home for cheaper instead. We love curry, so tend to make it at home at least once every two weeks. Generally with leftover chicken, or sometimes we'll buy the turkey drumstick (£1.50) and pop that in the slow cooker during the day and strip the meat off for a curry later in the evening. We use the 9p per jar basics curry sauce from Sains, along with 13p tin of basics pineapple, and either basics tinned mushrooms or fresh if they are on sale. A little bit of basics rice as well, and a pretty cheap curry that's very tasty! We also use leftover pork when we have a pork roast to make sweet and sour pork, using sweet and sour sauce for 23p a jar at Sains. Add some thin sliced or chopped up peppers and some pineapple, and it's all good!

I agree with previous poster - Farm Foods is much cheaper for milk, as well as bread, and loo roll!

Also take the time to browse local butchers - often you can get a good deal from them, plus they can recommend things that perhaps you haven't tried before. We buy regularly from our local butcher and get 4 joints (lamb, beef, pork, gammon) plus 2 whole chickens for £25, which is cheaper than we'd get it in the supermarket - and it's always excellent quality!

There are tons of lovely recipes about - bbc food, mse, all sorts of places! Take some time to dig around - perhaps explore the idea of using a slow cooker even - and try something new! Sometimes we like it, sometimes we don't, but most of the time it's a recipe we add to our regular meals.

The slow cooker might be a good option for you if you're eating lunch at home during the day. Some things you can pop in and let it simmer from say 6am until noon when you come home for lunch and it's all ready to go! Then having a hot lunch, you might opt for something lighter at supper, perhaps salad or something. Even small changes like that will get you out of the rut of having the same meals!

charlie792

Thanks for the advice guys
In regards to the following:

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Have you got a garden?

You don't say where you shop - Try Aldi or Lidl it is all good quality stuff , Sainsbury have a great range of basic foods much better than Asda's range, We also do an occasional iceland shop. I find Tesco much too expensive. Approved foods is a brilliant site too. Find a good local butcher who will give you help with cheaper cuts of meat and even tell you how to cook them, with the bonus that you only buy what you need. pork Hock is cheap and tasty, so is lambs liver, kidneys and ox heart

Farm foods are cheapest for milk

Technically I do have a garden but I can't do anything with it as the place is rented and shared with another property

I shop at Tesco - interestingly enough during the DTD promotion Tesco came out cheapest every week.
I can't go to any of the other supermarkets like Lidl etc as they are out of town (and I dont drive) and Tesco is a 24hr store unlike my local Sainsbury or ASDA both of which are often shut by the time OH gets home from work.
Only thing I tend to buy elsewhere is fresh chicken - much cheaper in our small Iceland in town but we don't eat frozen food so nothing to stock up on there really (plus its closing down in July)

Triggles wrote: »

I agree with previous poster - Farm Foods is much cheaper for milk, as well as bread, and loo roll!

Also take the time to browse local butchers - often you can get a good deal from them, plus they can recommend things that perhaps you haven't tried before. We buy regularly from our local butcher and get 4 joints (lamb, beef, pork, gammon) plus 2 whole chickens for £25, which is cheaper than we'd get it in the supermarket - and it's always excellent quality!

No farmfoods here....

On the butches front Im not sure we even have one of them close either, the only one I know of in town closed down not that long ago! (Its become a ghost town here )